Barcelona, Spain.
After winning this Saturday at Spanish (4-1) and move nine points away from Real Madrid at the top of LaLiga EA Sports, the Barcelona coach, Hansi Flick has assured that his team only needs “one good game” to overcome a 2-0 loss in the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals against Atlético de Madrid on Tuesday.
“We don’t need a miracle, just a good game, and we can do that. The Wednesday We were better and controlled the second half. Everything is possible. This Saturday, after 3-1, we scored 4-1 directly. I know that Atlético is a fantastic team, but so are we, and we are prepared. We are going to fight,” said the German.
flick He hopes to have defender Gerard Martín, who suffered a physical setback this Saturday but, in the coach’s words, “it is not a major injury and he will be able to play.”
And about the midfielder Frenkie de Jong who reappeared in the last minutes after overcoming an injury, has indicated that he does not know “if he will be able to play more than 45 or 60 minutes” at the Metropolitano.
flick He has admitted that he has tried to manage his players’ minutes thinking about the next game, but that “the story has been different from what was expected in the first half”, after Espanyol’s 2-1 and the improvement of the blue and white, and that they have had to “change the idea a little”.
However, he pointed out that they have “two days to recover” and that in the final stretch they have “controlled the game a little more”, so they will be “prepared to fight back on Tuesday”.
“The most important thing was to get the three points. In the first half we dominated the game and in the second we lost a little control and they scored against us. It was hard work, but the changes went well to control the ball more,” summarized Flick, who was “very happy” for the scorers.
About the celebration of Ferran Torres addressed those who criticize him, the coach responded that “the most important thing is to protect the players” and that “criticism must be managed”, although “sometimes it is not easy and you think it is unfair”, since it is “part of the job”, and added that everyone must focus on themselves.
In addition, flick He has denied that LaLiga is doomed: “Having a nine-point margin is very good, but we have to finish it off. We cannot say that it is already done, it is not the way and I will not accept it. We always have to play at our best, it is our way of seeing football. Mentality is important.”
However, the coach has also rejected that, at this point, the only one who can lose LaLiga is the Barcelona more than his pursuers winning it: “We don’t have to think about what we can lose. We have to think that we have the quality to win LaLiga and play with the right mentality and do it as a team, nothing more.” EFE
